Oakgrove, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wadmalaw Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29487. The Survey maps it on the Wadmalaw Island quadrangle.

Oakgrove within Charleston County

On record in Oakgrove

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

John Seabrook Plantation Bridgelisted 1974 · 0.2 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1919 USGS Wadmalaw Island quadrangle1:24000
1919 USGS Wadmelaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Wadmelaw Island quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Wadmalaw Island quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Oakgrove between 1992 and 2019, burning about 393 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Debris and open burning	24
Arson/incendiarism	20
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2007	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oakgrove: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Wadmalaw	Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Charleston County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rockland	1.1 miles	19
Rockville	2.0 miles	19
Bears Bluff	2.5 miles	18
Wadmalaw Island	3.3 miles	17
White Point Landing	3.5 miles	18
Seabrook Island	4.1 miles	19
Camp Saint Christopher	4.5 miles	19
Steamboat Landing	4.6 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231606. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.